Diddled at Easter!

[Julia9054]

I remember my Mum - who was a teacher - getting a huge luxury Easter egg from her class. It sat on the sideboard until Easter Sunday looking amazing. When she opened it, someone had carefully opened the packaging, eaten the chocs from inside, eaten the back half of the shell and carefully wrapped up the front half, putting the packaging back together. The culprit? My Dad. There was a distinctly frosty atmosphere for the rest of that Easter.

 

[jayonabike]

I'd definitely go back to waitrose, their customer service is fantastic. We bought some flowers that died before they had opened up and all I had was a photo of them on my phone and I didn't have the receipt. They gave me double the cost back as a refund and in cash

 

[booze and cake]

Yes you should definitely complain, even if most of the remaining evidence has been erm...destroyed. Its further proof of slipping standards, slapdash quality control and the ever tightening screw of profit maximisation gradually sucking the joy and life out of a bizarre and pointless tradition. How very dare they, they are playing fast and loose with our tradtions and will be remembered as monsters

Having acted like a choc starved piggy the last few days, I have noticed from my... erm.... research that an increasing number of the Easter eggs these days don't have anything in the egg, not like the olden days when I was a lad, its outrageous. In the last 24 hours I've eaten a Cadbury's Creme Egg and Maltesers Easters Eggs and nothing was in the egg at all, a hollow victory indeed. They just had a Egg and a 'fun' size pack of maltesers rattling around in the box, its like they're not making an effort.

I am currently munching my way through the Sainsbury's 'taste the difference' Belgian White Chocolate with pistachios, Easter Egg, the choc version of which came top of this review this week:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/easter-egg-taste-test-supermarket-7586276
...and again, nothing inside at all. Taste the difference is their slogan, more like 'feel the disappointment'.

If I was'nt lying down twitching in diabetic shock I'd jolly well write a strongly worded letter to someone in charge who would shrug with indifference and do nothing.

 

[Sandra6]

I'd definitely go back to waitrose, their customer service is fantastic. We bought some flowers that died before they had opened up and all I had was a photo of them on my phone and I didn't have the receipt. They gave me double the cost back as a refund and in cash

I bought some tulips in lidl and they dropped overnight before even opening. I emailed a pic to lidl and received a five pound voucher plus a letter to claim a refund next time I'm in store. Funny thing is, the day after they perked back up and lasted a week. :-)
Sarah - I'd email the company and I'm sure they'll send a voucher or are placement.

 

[colly]

I was diddled over Easter. By proxy anyway. A cadbury's chocolate egg with some little sweets in. The chocolate sweets looked like that had been swept up from the floor. All scuffed and covered in white scars etc ( very much like any cheapo choc you get from China or India etc).
The egg itself was so thin it was almost see-through.

More than that.............what has happened to Cadbury's chocolate ? It used to lovely, creamy and satisfying, leaving a soft sensuous aftertaste. Not any more sunshine.
I swear it had a hint of camel shoot about it.

Ah well, just one more favourite crushed and destroyed.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

I've never really got my head round easter egg day.

I think being lumbered with cleaning out the rabbit hutch leaves me a little suspicious of egg laying rabbits. Them little brown eggs are dubious in my view.